Newsboat

hntui is a terminal user interface for browsing Hacker News. It retrieves data from the public Hacker News Firebase API and provides the Top, New, Best, Ask, Show, Jobs, and Saved feeds, with story comments, article links, and browser opening. Navigation supports Vim-style keys and mouse input; comment threads can be collapsed, posts can be saved locally in a JSON file, and the interface includes dark and light themes. It runs in modern true-color terminals with UTF-8 and mouse support. The project distributes dependency-free binaries for macOS and Linux and can also be installed or run through Bun and npm. It is released under the MIT license.

News Dashboard is a self-hosted technical-news inbox and AI research desk that aggregates curated RSS and Atom feeds, GitHub release feeds, Hacker News and GitHub trending feeds, and custom scraped sources into curated feeds and a ranked Today Feed. Articles can be marked new, read, saved, skipped, archived, starred, or snoozed; the application also provides source-health monitoring, ingestion history, dashboard statistics, search, reading history, a knowledge graph, and saved learning artifacts. When an AI provider is configured, it generates personalized briefings, article takeaways, context, and perspectives, and answers cited follow-up questions grounded in the collected corpus. It supports embeddings, configurable OpenAI-compatible providers, and a Google Reader-compatible synchronization API for third-party RSS clients. The application uses a Python and FastAPI backend with APScheduler, LangChain, and LangGraph; a React, TypeScript, Vite, and TanStack Query frontend; and PostgreSQL with the pgvector extension. It supports local password authentication, optional Keycloak login, and deployment through Docker, Helm, and GitHub Actions on the operator’s own infrastructure, with configuration for the database, authentication, and AI provider.

Backchannel is an open-source userscript and renamed continuation of HNewhere that brings discussions from Hacker News, Bluesky, Reddit, Lemmy, Lobsters, and other selectable sources into a sidebar beside the page or PDF being read. It checks visited pages for matching threads, merges enabled sources into one conversation with source labels, and matches quoted comments to article passages as clickable annotations; enhanced PDF highlighting is supported except in Firefox. Users can vote, reply, and submit through popups on supported source sites, add locally stored notes to pages and PDFs, and use a customizable front page combining content from selected sources. The single-file script runs without a build step, backend, analytics, or telemetry, and is distributed through userscript managers such as Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, and Userscripts.

Telecast is a self-hosted, statically generated microblog mirror that turns a Telegram channel into a locally deployable website. It fetches channel content, including posts and media, and generates a Twitter-like responsive feed with Telegram-native image grids, DPlayer video playback, Lunr.js full-text search, RSS, social previews, a sitemap, and optional PWA assets. The project is built with Next.js, React, shadcn/ui, and Tailwind CSS. Configuration is kept in a single TypeScript file containing the channel, site URL, Telegram host, locale, timezone, social links, and display options; it does not use environment files or runtime environment variables. The production build generates the site artifacts before the Next.js build, and the resulting static site can be deployed without a database or a runtime Telegram dependency. The repository lists Node.js 22 or newer and pnpm 10 or newer as requirements.